"Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it."

-- Alfred Jarry

#Water Quotes #Liquid Quotes #Poison Quotes

“We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy.”
“You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.”
“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.”
“As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.”
“Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.”

Source : Jerry Gorovoy, Louise Bourgeois, Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi, Paulo Herkenhoff, Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy) (1997). “Louise Bourgeois: blue days and pink days”
“I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine.”

Source : Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.109, Algonquin Books
“I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived.”
“Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.”

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